discussion who else hates christmas???

[Guest]

i was just thinking about it..the usual monotony of preparing to buy presents that people dont want or need and i thought, as i always do just how much i really, really, really hate christmas,,i mean...REALLY hate it.

the last few years when myself and my ex were together we used to clear off abroad-canaries usually as its guaranteed sun. It was such a relief to get away from all the BS, and i used to avoid all the ex=pat bars and santa hats with a vengeance.

When did this all start you may ask?? Probably when i was about 13 or 14. By the time i was 20 i had moved from apathy to dislike. By 25 the dislike has gradually turned from depression, to anger, to despair, to fury...this is where ive been for the last few years.

Dont get me wrong, when i visit family its great, but its the same boring old crap year in year out...im not a big telly watcher and thats all us Brits seem to do. Im not into eating and drinking..im virtually tee total in fact..so the combination of three things that dont interest me afger a build up of weeks and weeks of advertising, apnic buying, queing etc etc drives me effing nuts.

 

[Guest]

yes but think of all the models you can ask for as presents and dont forget the turkey butties

 

[stona]

Mmmmmm! I do like the eating.....and cooking oddly enough.

Most of the rest I treat with the indifference it deserves.

Steve

 

[Guest]

What a coincidence Funky (what is your real name ?) just arrived back after getting the local paper. On the way back I was thinking o no Christmas. Sad really.

Christmas dinner at one of my Daughters or Sons house great but then about 6 or 7 hours of just sitting there doing all the things I do not do. Watching Television wall to wall. Cannot even choose the programme. Thinks must take some games we then will get conversation & laughter.

Boxing day a free day so that is OK.

I am such a miserable specimen.

Laurie

 

[Guest]

I'm pretty much the same.

I like seeing the family but it's all the manic build up with people going nuts in the shops, no time for each other (even more so than usual!), brain wash advertising telling you that YOU NEED THIS! And it all starts in early September too.

I'm tee total as well, use to like a drink but cannot even be bothered with that. To make matters worse I'm also gluten intolerant so cannot even have a decent turkey sandwich or sausage roll. And don't bother going around other peoples houses for food... they look at you as though your alien when you mention gluten free. Just adds to the misery watching everyone else eat what they like!

Grumpy old men..... Yep

 

[Guest]

One of the best Christmas Days I had......

went to Fuerteventura for the week. Spent the morning watching kite surfers do their thing, followed by a stroll on the beach with the missus, sat round the pool for a few hours then had a lovely dinner.

Not a sausage roll or Queens speech in sight

 

[Guest]

I love christmas , having two boys aged 10 and 4 its a special time , expensive but you can`t put a price on it when you see the boys faces xmas morning , also got a great family and inlaws , xmas day and boxing day lots of eating lots of boozing all the kids running around having fun , I love it .

Richy

 

[Guest]

To make matters worse I'm also gluten intolerant

Mate, im just intolerant...of everything

One of the best Christmas Days I had...... went to Fuerteventura for the week. Spent the morning watching kite surfers do their thing, followed by a stroll on the beach with the missus, sat round the pool for a few hours then had a lovely dinner.

Not a sausage roll or Queens speech in sight

Ditto myself and the ex two years ago...(except the dinner wasnt so clever)

Pretty much buggar all to do except get a tan, but that suited me..

i remember christmas day...sitting at a bar on the beach, sipping some cocktail or other. the only concession to christmas was an obese bloke, burnt to absolute crisp, speedos on, apron of fat swinging over the family jewels wearing a flashing santa hat..he HAD to be British...

 

[BarryW]

I love it. Its not about the presents, its about the atmosphere and a break from work for up to 2 weeks without having to worry about what waiting for me after I return. And, of course - lots of good food and drink and plenty of time to make models......

 

[Ian M]

Ba Humbug!

The best bit about Christmas; a few days off work. Trust me over here christmas is a big thing. I dread the fact that Halloween is soon come and gone 'cause I just know that those pumkins and witches hats in the shop displays are going to be swapped out for Christmas tat.

I would say that I have no religious belief and I find the whole thing pointless.

Ian M

 

[geegad]

Absolutely love it 35 getting hitched nxt year so will be a small box under the tree but usually boxes..enjoy everything from getting all the chocs to wrapping the gifts to have a piss up round my partners pearents house on the night and who doesn't like a odd cracker or two..the only thing that suck is I only get two days off work..but as they say it takes all kinds to make the world go round

 

[Guest]

used to enjoy xmas, but that was because I had small children, after all they're what its all about. they're grown up now and do their own thing so its been different and quite boring for several years, this year we have a grandson to spoil so it'll be much better.

I don't drink at all so no getting blotto for me. I do however eat like a horse so I cook absolutly everything that's xmas related.

hopefully next year my newly married daughter will have started a family of her own

so there will be an extra kiddie to spoil.

as far as all the hype revolving around xmas..... I leave it well alone.

 

[Gern]

What's this "Christmas" thing everyone's on about?

Gern

 

[Guest]

I love Christmas!

* It's one of a few days without work in all the year (24 and 26 I'm working...), and love to pass the day with my parents. We are the three without any hurry or anything to do. If we want we see some good movie or I simply disappear in the evening to do a bit of models.

And this year I believe that it will be of snow ... there is a tree with a few red fruits, if when approaches the winter it's very "loaded" it's said that it will very snow year ... and it's true, this weekend has snowed already in the high part of the mountain.

So....cold weather, snow, a good fire and one good kit!!!

Like Christmas!!

 

[Guest]

Xmas mean't nothing to me since my two kids had grown up but now the daughter has had a little lad I LOVE XMAS again ...lol

 

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

I love the whole atmosphere, I love putting up the loud and proud out door lights that flash on and off and annoy all the Grinches, I love decorating the tree, the past few years I have cooked full Christmas dinner for my mom as she hasnt been well, this year I have even more lights for the back garden ! The couple of days off is a bonus and then its just 2 weeks of mad sales then its all quiet and lighter nights start to slowly roll in. If it snows even better I drive slowly and safely to work as idiots rush past me and end up in ditches or lamp posts, snowball fights with work friends on empty shoppers car parks and then the pub for a warm meal and a hot toddy.

All in all yes I love it, I bet I can offset all you Grinches

 

[Guest]

I love Christmas. On what other day of the year could I switch from Marstons Pedigree to home made pints of Snowball and get away with it.

I then get to eat a sack full of roasted spuds without the wife giving me earache about my health. and then I get to spend the rest of the afternoon wondering what i'd said to my sister to make her think i'd like a juggling kit (she bought me one last year - i'm mid 40's and over 20 stone..lol)

 

[Guest]

No other day of the year is it acceptable (by my missus standards anyway) to drink whiskey for breakfast.

 

[Guest]

Love it!!! and its even better now the last few years as it starts straigh after Halloween. All the decorations go up around the Towns and even up in some shops...

Andy :chillin::newyear::angel:

 

[mossiepilot]

I hate, perhaps hate is too harsh a word, but dislike the run-up to Christmas, the running around present buying, trying to think what to get for family and friends, spending too much money on food we wont eat and then staggering home with it all in bags that threaten to burst open at any minute. Also I work in a care home, one of the residents has their christmas tree ready to put up already, so a day off work is a non starter, can't put a dust sheet over little old ladies and gents while you celibrate the festive season. Being encouraged to eat too much food and drink too much booze, I'm not a big drinker anyway.

But the day itself I like, on the whole, watching old film musicals with the care home residents that I've seen a thousand times before and enjoyed every time I see them and christmas specials on the tele, seeing family I haven't seen since last Christmas, and getting presents, most of which I don't really want, but am pleased to receive anyway. and then the best bit - Boxing day and it's all over for another year thank goodness.

Not exactly "Bah Humbug!" indifference, but not overly enthusiastic either, am I strange?

Tony.